Two people killed during violent 15-hour span that saw four shootings and a stabbing in Flint

FLINT, Michigan — Two men were killed, another was critically wounded and two more people were hurt in four shootings and a stabbing within 15 hours on Thursday, according to police.

View full size(Emily-Rose Bennett | The Flint Journal)Angie Cox, 15, and Elizabeth Lester, 3, watch from their Chambers Street window as police investigate the area where a man was chased and arrested following a double shooting near Stonegate Drive and Kleinpell Street in Flint on Thursday afternoon.
In four separate violent incidents Thursday, four people were shot and one stabbed. Two of the shooting victims died.

Shortly after midnight, a 23-year-old Flint man was shot to death in the driveway of his home on Copeman Boulevard near Dupont Street, police said.

Clifton Burns was in his Dodge Stratus when two men in a black Pontiac Grand Prix pulled up behind Burns’ vehicle, blocking him in. They got out of their car and started shooting.There have been no arrests.

At 4 a.m., police responded to a stabbing on Colorado Avenue near Olive Avenue. A woman was stabbed, and a man was arrested, police said. The woman was listed in serious condition at an area hospital.

View full size(Emily-Rose Bennett | The Flint Journal)Police stand beside a pile of clothes where a man was found shot to death outside an apartment complex at Stonegate Drive and Kleinpell Street in Flint on Thursday afternoon. A second victim in the shooting drove himself to Hurley Medical Center after being shot in the foot. Two other people were shot and another stabbed in separate incidents in Flint on Thursday.

The shooting began after a pizza delivery man arrived at the Atherton East Townhouses public housing complex near Kleinpell Street and Stonegate Drive, police said.

One man was shot to death on a lawn outside the complex. The second victim, who was shot in the foot, drove himself to Hurley Medical Center. The pizza delivery man was not injured.

A plainclothes officer chased and caught a suspect near train tracks behind homes on Chambers Street, near the scene of the shooting.

“A lot of times people can't be caught, but I'm glad they got him. They were on him like glue,” said Rick Zinn, 49.

Zinn said he was standing in his driveway when he heard a series of gunshots.

“It was a good dozen shots,” he said.

View full size(Joseph Tobianski | The Flint Journal)Police investigate the area surrounding train tracks behind a row of homes on Chambers Street in Flint where a suspect was caught after a double shooting Thursday afternoon. One man is dead and another victim fled the scene and drove himself to Hurley Medical Center after being shot in the foot.

Minutes later, he saw a man walk through the area and suddenly bolt into a sprint.

Veronica Ryan, 24, also lives on Chambers and saw the man trying to flee police.

She said her grandmother called her to warn her about the chase after hearing about it over radio scanner traffic.

“I put my kids in the bathroom because it's the only room with no windows,” Ryan said.

She saw the suspect through a back window running along the tracks and then joined her kids in the bathroom.

View full size(Emily-Rose Bennett | The Flint Journal)A group of boys watch from their porch as police investigate the scene of a double shooting at an apartment complex at Stonegate Drive and Kleinpell Street in Flint on Thursday afternoon. A violent 15-hour period in Flint left two people dead and one in critical condition Thursday.

Shirley Miller, 45, said she heard several gunshots from inside her apartment.